Permanent International Committee of Linguists (CIPL)

The Permanent International Commitee/Comité
International Permanent des Linguistes (CIPL) is an
international organization founded in 1928 during the first
international congress of linguistics which took place in The
Hague. It is a non-governmental organization founded to
assist in the development of linguistic science. It tries to
further linguistic research and to co-ordinate activities
undertaken for the advancement of linguistics. It considers
it as its special task to promote mutual contact between
linguists and to make the results of linguistic research
known internationally. CIPL consists of a General Assembly and an Executive Committee. Quintannual
international congresses are organised in close collaboration
with the national committee on linguistic research.

Also CIPL prepares and publishes a linguistic bibliography which aims at
giving a complete and reliable survey of all linguistic
publications, irrespective of the country of their appearance
or the language in which they are written. In
cooperation with UNESCO CIPL sponsors special linguistic
projects such as projects in the field of Endangered
Languages.

As to the future, CIPL is confident that it will be able to
fulfil its two main obligations: the organization of
international congresses and the annual publication of the
bibliography. The modest funds at its disposal put narrow
limits on the range of the activities of our organization. As
it is of the utmost importance that the linguistic
bibliography be as up-to-date as possible, a serious attempt
is being made to shorten the interval between the year
covered and the year of publication of the annual
bibliography.

It goes without saying that CIPL remains open for all
countries in which national linguistic institutions or
research centers have come into being. As its statutes
already indicate, CIPL is meant to be a truly international
organization. Therefore our policy can only be to encourage
national and international scientific organizations to become
members and to participate in our activities.